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China has lashed out at Germany after its foreign minister called Xi Jinping a “dictator” and summoned Berlin’s ambassador for a dressing down, in the latest flaring of tensions with a western democratic power over how the Chinese leader is described overseas.

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[–] [email protected] 166 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Very noticeable that they didn't specify how he wasn't a dictator, nor what other label would be more appropriate.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago

"I am not a dictator! Anyone who says I am will get jailed!" - Grand Poohbear of China, 2023

[–] Cheradenine 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Hexbear users incoming in 3.2.1...

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I use a client that can block instances, so I have all of Hexbear blocked. It radically improves the Lemmy experience.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tell me your wisdom, duck of the lake.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I use a Violentmonkey script to do so

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sync let's you do it. Also possibly Connect? I forgot the other one, but i think it might be Connect.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Yes, connect lets you block instances, but it still shows that there was a comment there and lets you show it. It's handy to see how much you're blocking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Kbin allows users to do this (noting kbin isn't a client it's a compatible platform).

[–] spacecowboy -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Memmy app let’s you do it as well.

[–] Cheradenine 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am using Eternity or Voyager, I will be so happy when instance blocking comes to those.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Connect does instance blocking and I think LiftOff does as well.

[–] Cheradenine 2 points 1 year ago

I just.tried Liftoff and i did not see that option

[–] spacecowboy 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Give Memmy a try. I switched to it so I could block entire instances. It’s made my feed so much better!

[–] Cheradenine 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks for the recommendation, but I'm on Android, so I can't use it. On spezit I loved, and supported Infinity, the Infinity fork Eternity is very good. I love having my own colour theme, it's great for qol, and all the other nice features it has.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Sync is an outstanding Lemmy client for Android.

[–] spacecowboy -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apologies! I should have mentioned it was for iOS.

[–] Cheradenine 2 points 1 year ago

No worries at all

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thankfully, OP is from an instance that has not federated with Hexbear. Hexbear users won't be able to see this post.

[–] spez 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But they have posted to .ml which is federated with hexbear. So the poster's instance needs to be federated no the instance of the community where the post is?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You need both. For a comment you even need the community instance, the poster instance, and the commenter instance to all be federated

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Basically, everybody needs to agree before access is granted.

It is the best way to block spammers and trolls.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe she should've used the chinese word for dictator.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's exactly like his name!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, Xi Jinping

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

*Winnie the Pooh